Combined silencer and bayonet.



Patented Apr.v 11, 1911.

M ATTORNEY 15 results I have 30 44 of Fig. 2.

BER/TELL W. KING, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

COMBINED SILENGER AND BAYONET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 11, 1911.

Application filed July 3, 1909, Serial No. 505,785. Renewed September 20, 1910. Serial No. 582,925.

5 United States of America, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a. Combined Silencer and Bayonet, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a coniibined silencer and bayonet, and its object is to provide a device which, when applied to a gun, may serve the double purpose of multling the explosions of the discl'iarge, and being used as a bayonet. To accomplish these invented the attachment which is shown in the accompanying drawions, the construction and arrangement of which I will describe in the following specifioation, and the novel features of which I will set forth in the appended claims.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l a sectional side elevation of adevice made according to my invention, showing it 111 operative position on the end of a-rifle barrel.

a plan view, respectively, of the same parts. 1

Figs. 2 and 3 are a side elevation and In Fig. 4 I have shown a sectional end view of the rifle barrel and my in'iproved attachment, the section being taken on the line 7 Fig. 5 shows the device in an end section, taken on the line 5--5 of Fig. 2, and looking in the direction 01 the arrows. liilio characters of referencedesignate corresponding parts in all of the figures.

a. 10 designates a portion of a rille or gun barrel upon the end of which my device is to be attached.

IL is a hollow hub forming a part of my inu'iroved attachment and arranged to be 40 litled over and secured to the end of the rilic barrel by means of any desired arrangement.

12 is the body of the attacluncnt, one portion of which is constructed to form a hollow chamber Within which area plurality of deflecting;- plates 12-3 of such form, construc'tion and arrangement as to cause the gases emitted from the barrel after an explosion has taken place therein to be dc [looted laterally away froin the path lon;ri-

t'udinally through the attachment altorded by the orifice 1 5, and to be guided'by the surfaces of sa-id'plates into whirls, whereby the said gases gradually lose their velocity and are distributed overa large area for thepurpose of mmmnzmc the reportof i i such explosion. The outer end of this body is drawn down into the form of a pointed blade 14.

15 designates a longitudinal orifice through the outer surface of the attachment and. in alinement with the barrel of the gun or rifle to which it is afiixed. Each of the deflectors is also provided with a hole, preferably circular in form, and-in alinement with the barrel and with each other.

The uses and operation of this device are obvious. Mufflers for reducing the report oi the discharge of guns are now in common use. Sacha device has hitherto been an additional element or piece of an equipment which, in many cases, a serious disadvantage. But in such cases as those in which guns or rifles are provided with bayoncts, my invention may be used in place of the old-style bayonets and thus gain the immense benefit of the silencer without adding weight or increasing the equipment. The advantage of this in the equipment of an army is apparent. Hunters or sportsmen who desire to provide themselves with gun silencers may, by the use of my invention, at the same time obtain most effective weapons for self-defense.

What. I claim is:

l. A gun attachment coml'irising a body provided with a mutilingr chamber, said body having a solid dagger-like point and arranged to have a portion in alinement with a gun barrel, said chamber being in communication with the interior of the gun barrel and arranged to silence the report of the gun.

2. A gun attachment comprising a body having; a solid dagger-like point. said body beingconstructed to form a hollow chamber provided with whirl forming; means for the discharge gases from gun.

3. gun attachment comprising a body having a solid dagger-like point, said body beingcoust-rluated to form a hollow chamher, and a plurality of plates within said chamber arranged to deflect the discharge gases from a gun.

4. A ,cun attaclnnent comprising a body having a solid dagger-like point, parallel. with but offset from the axis of the gun barrel. said body being constructed to'torm a hollow chamber and being provided with a longituilinal orifice in alincment With the gun barrel, and a plurality of plates within said chamber arranged to deflect the discharge gases from a gun, each of said plates ber arranged to deflect the discharge gases being provided with an opening in alinefrom a gun, each of said plates belng proment with said orifice. vided with an opening in alinement with the 5. A gun attachment comprising a body gun barrel, and with each other, l5 5 having a solid dagger-like point, means for In testimony whereof I have signed my connecting said body with the barrel of a nameto this specification in the presence of gun, said body being constructed to form two subscribing Witnesses.

a hollow chamber and being provided with BERTELL KING. a longitudinal orifice in alinement with the Witnesses:

10 gun barrel and at one side of said point, ERNEST W. MARSHALL,

and a plurality of plates within said cham- ELLA TUCH. 

